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Ardent Spirits. Yet to most Americans good eating continued to mean an abundance of meat and strong drink. Early European visitors to America noted that "whiskey was the American wine," drunk diluted with all meals and in between by adults and children alike. Excessive, indiscriminate tippling eventually led to the passage of Prohibition, which the authors argue set back the development of American wine. Yet the nation's most famous glutton spurned ardent spirits for orange juice and lemon pop. Tales of Diamond Jim Brady's Gay Nineties gorging at Delmonico's in New York...
Throwing a sweater, a toothbrush, a Nat Sci textbook and a pint of Jameson's Irish Whiskey into a duffel bag, I headed out the door under the cloud of that typical all-nighter feeling. It was not to be a typical day, though, as I relaized upon stepping out into the grey early morning...
...graduated '53, played defensive tackle and was the number two ground gainer his senior year," an enterprising son of Harvard told the bartender while he sipped a gratis whiskey sour...
...been chipping and putting we would have been in the thing," Donovan said, voicing the complaint of every golfer who has ever succumbed to a whiskey jerk...
...younger classes drink gin, scotch, vodka and some bourbon," Murphy said. While Harvard celebrators drink mostly scotch and bourbon, their counterparts at Wellesley prefer gin, and at Boston University drink a lot of blended whiskey, he added...